Why are their rumors that it's "the end of the world"?

We will talk about where the idea of the "end of the world" came from, and what clues the Mayan calendar give, or supposedly give.First, we will talk about their religious beliefs and relation to other religious beliefs that give the Mayan prophecy the mythological undertones. But for now, we'll discuss what made 2012 "apocalyptic." According to those who argue that the 2012 apocalypse will happen, it will be the end of the world. This is because it is the end of the "Great Year." The Mayans measured their time in different ways than we measure our own. Our "year" is the amount of time it takes to go around the sun, 365 days. When it comes to bigger numbers, we use random counts multiplied by ten, like decade, century, and millenium. But the Mayans measured their time by the movements of other things in the solar system also. One was the movement of Venus. Another was the movement of the sun. According to the 2012 rumors, December 21 is going to be the end of the "Mayan Calendar." This in fact, could be argued in many ways, but we'll save that forlater. It is rumored (all quoted "facts" will be rumors) that the ancient Mayans believed that on 2012, the god Quezacotl will return to the earth. You may be saying, "Who is Quezacotl?" or you may be like, "Hey, thats the summon in Final Fantasy VIII/X!" (maybe not.) Or you may remember from some history class long ago that the return of Quezacotl was already supposed to have happened at an earlier time: in the 16th century. It is said that on the exact day that the Spanish explorer Hernan Cortez showed up to America, the Mayans were expecting the return of the god Quezacotl. They thought that the explorer was Quezacotl, and he was able to manipulate and eventually conquer them that way. Little is actually known about this, and some historians say that it is just a myth, because there is no Mayan evidence of this.The only evidence they have of this is the writings of Hernan Cortez himself, and history is usually exaggerated by the victors.